Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:40:42 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: EISA in GENERIC Message-ID: <20140415214042.GA73405@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <957D23B4-264C-4AAB-945C-F82B9877FAC9@bsdimp.com> References: <957D23B4-264C-4AAB-945C-F82B9877FAC9@bsdimp.com>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:50:14PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > The time has come to trim EISA from the generic i386 kernel. > > Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/patch-queue/eisa for > the proposed change. It introduces a MK_EISA too so one can > control building the eisa-only modules as well as the eisa attachments > in modules. > > There are those that say it is time to vote EISA off the island. Perhaps, > but that?s a completely different discussion than the one I?m wanting > to have now. The normal way that should be done is to remove it in 12 > after disabling it in 11. > No problem with intent of patch. Do you need to make any changes for bt(4)? My first foray into EISA used at Buslogic BT-742A. 'man bt' does not show a dependence on 'device eisa', but bt(4) certainly supported EISA cards. -- Steve
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